The “app” is a phenomenon of the smartphone era. Hundreds of thousands to “apps” are downloaded from the stores of Apple, Google, Nokia, Amazon and others. Most of these mini-applications for mobile phones do just one single, very special mini-task. There are apps for almost every conceivable purpose.The existence of this specialization and fragmentation of software, of course, was before the mobile applications – so be it
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discover musicians and the music industry for the app itself. Were previously purchased ring tones all the rage on many cell phones, they will slowly be replaced by apps. Many small music apps, an app per song. This is the vision behind Songpier, a German startup based near Munich, which is currently still in beta phase. On the Future Music Camp in Mannheim Songpier was presented in three steps, musicians create their apps. In addition to music, make song lyrics or visualizations, and notify friends in social networks.
And Björk, the grandmother of all Icelandic music elves will release their next album “Biophilia” as a collection of apps. In a virtual 3-D galaxy, the individual piece of music apps album revolve around the star and with additional features such as lyrics, visuals, Remix Tools and boasts game elements. Sounds pretty complicated, and should also have corresponding production costs, so it is only for mega-stars.
But these apps seem to confirm trends: First, download the individual songs will earn more than full albums, especially on mobile devices, storage and bandwidth play a certain role. On the other music currently have shifted toward cloud, and yes apps also has the feature that they – once purchased – can be installed again. The further development should already be in the coming months more information on how the single-song apps will be accepted.
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